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James Billingsley was treated well as a replacement. In combat troops, it is a different thing altogether. He never...

Pedro Parra was getting ready to get to go to Japan when the bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...

Robert Marich's unit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 1st Battalion, 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 11th Airborne...

After the Raid [Annotator's Note: the liberation of the Los Banos Internment Camp on 23 February 1945; Los Banos, Luzon...

John Singlaub was asked by OSS [Annotator's Note: Office of Strategic Services, pre-runner of the Central Intelligence...

After the war ended, Virginia Wilterdink had enough of the island climate, and elected to work on the hospital ship USS...

At Fort Snelling [Annotator's Note: near Bloomington, Minnesota], Donald Draxler and his father enlisted in the Army....

Paul A. Franklin was born in in February 1922 in Elm Grove, Louisiana. He was raised during the Great Depression [...

Lawrence Brooks was drafted in 1940 and went for basic training at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. By November [Annotator's...

Richard Keller and the rest of the 37th Division took part in the Louisiana Maneuvers. They were bused into the area...

[Annotator’s Note: Constant noise in background throughout this segment.] Leander Bubrig was born in Boothville,...

They [Annotator's Note: the Japanese] called the officer over and told him that the war was over. About a half hour...

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